Death
In 1978, he was invested as a member of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He died, 2 years later, on March 23, 1980 due to complications of an asthma attack.
Buendia Avenue, which was formerly named after the Commonwealth Era senator and Aglipayano Nicolas Buendia, is now named after him, but most people tend to use the original name of the road.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)